NHMRC call for applications: Investigator Grants
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is calling for applications for the Investigator Grants.
Investigator Grants provide the highest-performing researchers at all career stages with consolidated funding for their salary (if required) and a significant research support package. In this way, the Chief Investigator has flexibility to pursue important new research directions as they arise, adjust their resources accordingly, and to form collaborations as needed, rather than being restricted to the scope of a specific research project.
Project overview:
Investigator Grants support:
- research across the four pillars of health and medical research:
- biomedical
- clinical
- public health
- health services research
- all career stages:
- early career researchers
- mid-career researchers
- established researchers
- researchers with clinical responsibilities (such as clinicians, public health and allied health practitioners)
- full-time and part-time researchers.
Objectives:
- allow flexibility for investigators to pursue important new research directions as they arise and to form collaborations as needed
- foster innovative and creative research
- create opportunities for researchers at all career stages to establish their own research programs
- reduce application and peer review burden on researchers.
Funding details:
- NHMRC has implemented additional special measures under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 to address systemic disadvantage faced by female and non-binary applicants to its Investigator Grant scheme:
- Investigator Grants may be funded by or in conjunction with other organisations.Â
- Duration of 5 years.
Read more here.
Important dates:
- Minimum data due, 2 July 2025 17:00 AEST.
- Application deadline, 30 July 2025 17:00 AEST.
